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Whose Olympic gold?

The attempt by the Left to present the nation's pride as a new, "post-imperial", patriotism, after the olympics just highlights their hypocrisy and opportunism

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Political Correctness

Puss in Chains

Throughout the media's coverage of the Kremlin's heinous treatment of Pussy Riot one thing has been shamefully overlooked: their feminism

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Russia

Uncharitable Thoughts

A relentlessly hostile critic of Israel, Oxfam are destroying the second-hand book trade in the UK

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Judaism·Literature

Pride of the CUP

Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies

August 29, 2012

Academia·Counterpoints·Publishing

Gore the Bore

I once met Gore Vidal at a dinner party. He was less an intellectual heavyweight and more a drunken and repetitive bore

August 29, 2012

Counterpoints·Literature

Clutching at Straws and Tilting at Minarets

Two new books on the origins of Islam suffer from, at best, sloppy, and at worst, dishonest, scholarship

August 29, 2012

Books·Islam

A Long Way From Cable Street

Robert Wistrich's new study of anti-Semitism brilliantly elucidates how the Left has betrayed the Israel for which it once campaigned

August 29, 2012

Books·Israel·Judaism·UK Politics

Elizabethan Enigma

Edmund Spenser: A Life by Andrew Hadfield is vivid in parts, but ultimately fails to paint a clear picture of the 16th century poet

August 29, 2012

Books·Literature

Pandora’s Books

Belinda Jack's The Woman Reader charts the fascinating history of female literacy from Sappho to illegal book clubs in modern-day Iran

August 29, 2012

Books·Gender·Literature

Kilburn Confidential

After a seven-year hiatus, Zadie Smith returns with her fourth novel, NW. It is in turn vivid, angry and surprising

August 29, 2012

Books·Literature

Olympian Angst

'Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion'

August 29, 2012

European Eye·Germany·Sport

Romney Takes a Risk with Ryan

'Paul Ryan will thrash Joe Biden in debate and the Tea Party will enthusiastically endorse their poster boy but Romney's choice of running mate will attract few new voters'

August 29, 2012

Dispatches·US Politics

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